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Taxon: Bauhinia purpurea L.

Genus: Bauhinia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Caesalpinioideae tribe: Cercideae. Also placed in: Caesalpiniaceae
Nomen number: 6590
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:375. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 24-Nov-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • butterfly-orchid tree   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  • butterfly-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • camel's-foot   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • orchidtree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • purple bauhinia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • skoenlapperorgideëboom   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  • khairwal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  • pie de cabra   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3)
  • Gene sources: potential gene source for tribal pulses   (fide N. Rajaram & K. Janardhanan 1993)
  • Weed   (fide Weeds SAfr 2001)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan [e.]; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated throughout tropics

References:

  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
  • Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
  • Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Isely, D. 1975. Leguminosae of the United States: II. Subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(2):27.
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr) [cult.].
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Rajaram, N. & K. Janardhanan. 1993. Ex situ conservation of genetic resources of tribal pulses and their wild relatives. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 91/92:29–32.
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
  • Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Wit, H. C. D. de. 1956. A revision of the Malayan Bauhinieae. Reinwardtia 3:406.
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
  • Wunderlin, R. P. et al. 1987. Reorganization of the Cercideae (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae). Biol. Skr. 28:15.
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Bauhinia purpurea L.:

  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6590 (09 February 2010)

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